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In news from over the hill … the perennial traffic jam on Kanan Dume Road at the 101 Freeway is getting attention from the City of Agoura Hills and County of Ventura. Or at least … some lip service. The Acorn newspaper reports that Agoura Hills has hired traffic engineers to study Kanan Road north […]

The Caltrans project to install a simple curb in the middle of the Pacific Coast Highway … and that stretched into a 10-month ordeal … appears to be over. Late last week … crews repaved part of the P C H between Puerco Canyon Road and Corral Creek … near Cher’s House and Malibu Seafood. […]

Malibu’s city council will go behind closed doors this afternoon to discuss the job performance of city manager Reva Feldman. Notice was posted late last week of the one item special city council meeting … at 5:30 at City Hall. Feldman has come under furious attack by some people in the community. Her inability to […]

This is KBUU News – Day 134 – the Thursday headlines: =   The proposed new name for Point Dume’s school is yanked … and 86 the narwahl. =   The local mountain lion population stands a 1 in 4 chance of complete extinction. =   A super bloom may be coming to Malibu … […]

School Superintendent Ben Drati observes a “lack of consensus” in the selection “Marine Ocean Elementary School” as the new name for the old school on Point Dume. He is yanking the item off of tonight’s school board agenda. Also … he is withdrawing “narwhals” and blue and green as the proposed school mascot and colors. […]

Fifty years. That’s how long it could take for two populations of mountain lions in Southern California to go extinct under current conditions. New research published by U-C Davis yesterday paints a bleak picture for the local cougars. Right now .. odds are 1 in 4 that they will be extinct within 50 years. Freeways […]

Unhappiness with the City of Malibu’s first new traffic light in nearly ten years continues to simmer. At this week’s Planning Commission meeting … chairman Steve Urhring again criticized city staff for having designed the new traffic signal at Webb Way and Civic Center Way without any citizen input. Citicism on the cluster of 8 […]

Hundreds of thousands of people have been trompling the poppies and other flowers down at Lake Elsinore and in desert regions. Literally hundreds of thousands people. So many so that the Lake Elsinore Police Department declared an emergency and brought them please from outside agencies to direct traffic and settle fights over parking places. Now […]

58º and scattered sprinkles at 7:05 this morning at Trancas. Traffic is heavier heading to Malibu than to Santa Monica this morning. Odd. This is KBUU News – Day 134 – the Thursday Headlines: = The proposed new name for Point Dume’s school is yanked … and 86 the narwahl . = The local mountain […]

=   Fiber wattles and straw are being installed around Malibu. =   A bobcat that made it thru the fire … squashed by a car. =   A second loss for Round Up …a jury says glysophate causes cancer. =   A small rainstorm passes thru today … but not much chance of mud. […]